Word: girls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called up and left to join the army." Writing of the day when the Germans took Rome in 1943: ". . . I looked into the courtyard of my old home [Palazzo Colonna]; a shell had struck the wall just over the window of what had been my bedroom as a girl . . . I was told that the porter and the butler had been wounded." On the American occupation of Rome, the Duchess wrote: "I must pay tribute to the tact and courtesy of all Allied officers I met, from those of the highest rank down to the humblest lieutenants . . . not one of them...
...Shanghai, in 1921, he attended the foundation meeting of China's Communist Party. Although he was impatient with friends who talked about girls or other nonrevolutionary matters, he fell in love. According to old custom, his parents had married him to a village girl when he was 14. He discarded the girl back home, with whom he had never lived, and married Yang K'ai-hui, a professor's daughter and an active Communist. Friends celebrated their marriage as an "ideal romance." She bore him two sons, both of whom were educated in Moscow. Yang was executed...
...marched into Manchuria in their one-week war against Japan and for months prevented the Nationalist troops from entering the northern provinces. Li Lisan returned with the Red army from his Moscow exile and was established in Manchuria. He had successfully purged himself of Trotskyism, had married a Russian girl, and was said to be in high favor with Stalin...
...Eisenhower invading Normandy atop a human landing barge (see cut). Sugar-coated propaganda also pervaded the Saturday night dances regularly held in a Yenan apple orchard at which Mao appeared in simple peasant dress to dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock. A girl in flowing robes enters, dances around him, and wakes him by provocatively brushing the hem of her gown over his face...
Like a red-faced girl clothed in white...